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Title: A Red Wallflower

Author: Susan Warner

Release Date: October 7, 2008 [EBook #26828]

Language: English

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Produced by Daniel Fromont

[Transcriber's note: Susan Warner, _A red wallflower_, (1884), Nisbet
1913 edition]

A RED WALLFLOWER

BY SUSAN WARNER AUTHOR OF 'THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD,' 'QUEECHY,' ETC.

LONDON JAMES NISBET & CO. LIMITED 21 BERNERS STREET W

NOTE TO THE READER.

The story following is again in its whole chain of skeleton facts a
true story. I beg to observe, in particular, that the denominational
feeling described in both families, with the ways it showed itself, is
part of the truth of the story, and no invention of mine.

S. W.

MARTLAER'S ROCK, June 25, 1884.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. AFTER DANDELIONS
II. AT HOME
III. THE BOX OF COINS
IV. LEARNING
V. CONTAMINATION
VI. GOING TO COLLEGE
VII. COMING HOME
VIII. A NOSEGAY
IX. WANT OF COMFORT
X. THE BLESSING
XI. DISSENT
XII. THE VACATION
XIII. LETTERS
XIV. STRUGGLES
XV. COMFORT
XVI. REST AND UNREST
XVII. MOVING
XVIII. A NEIGHBOUR
XIX. HAPPY PEOPLE
XX. SCHOOL
XXI. THE COLONEL'S TOAST
XXII. A QUESTION
XXIII. A DEBATE
XXIV. DISAPPOINTMENT
XXV. A HEAD OF LETTUCE
XXVI. WAYS AND MEANS
XXVII. ONIONS
XXVIII. STRAWBERRIES
XXIX. HAY AND OATS
XXX. A HOUSE
XXXI. MAJOR STREET
XXXII. MOVING
XXXIII. BETTY
XXXIV. HOLIDAYS
XXXV. ANTIQUITIES
XXXVI. INTERPRETATIONS
XXXVII. A STAND
XXXVIII. LIFE PLANS
XXXIX. SKIRMISHING
XL. LONDON
XLI. AN OLD HOUSE
XLII. THE TOWER
XLIII. MARTIN'S COURT
XLIV. THE DUKE OF TREFOIL
XLV. THE ABBEY
XLVI. A VISIT
XLVII. A TALK
XLVIII. A SETTLEMENT

A RED WALLFLOWER.

CHAPTER I.

_AFTER DANDELIONS_.

It is now a good many years ago that an English family came over from
the old country and established itself in